“To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.”
More from André Gide on Happiness
“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.”
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”
“Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.”
Others on Happiness
Dalai Lama
12 quotes“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Jane Austen
10 quotes“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
Anne Frank
8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Leo Tolstoy
6 quotes“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”
Alexandre Dumas
6 quotes“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Dale Carnegie
5 quotes“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”
Albert Schweitzer
5 quotes“One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve...”
Anton Chekhov
5 quotes“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
Charles Schulz
5 quotes“Happiness is loving your enemies.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
5 quotes“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
Bertrand Russell
5 quotes“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”